Ramavtar Singh Jakhar


Ramavtar Singh Jakhar is a retired international Volleyball Player from Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan. He was born at Nawalgarh on 15 May 1970 in the family of Navrang Singh Jakhar, former MLA from Nawalgarh in Rajasthan. Navrang Singh Jakhar belongs to village Jakharon Ki Dhani in Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan.
Ramavtar Singh did BA from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is working as Manager with State Bank of India.

Career

Singh is Member of Board of Administration of Asian Volleyball Confederation & Finance Committee of AVC; General Secretary of the Rajasthan Volleyball Association; Secretary General of the Volleyball Federation of India and Vice-President of the Rajasthan Olympic Association and Elected President of State Bank of India Officer's Association Jaipur circle on 22 September 2017 and also elected as a Dy. General Secretary of the All India State Bank officer’s Federation. He won the 1991 Aravali award and 1992 Maharana Pratap award.
Singh won the gold medal in the 1990 II India Gold Cup International Tournament Hyderabad and the gold in the 1991 SAF Games at Colombo. He also played the 1991 VII Asian Championship. He represented India in India in the 1990 Cultural Exchange Tour at Egypt and had test matches against Iran and Indonesia in 1992, Kyrghizstan in 1993 and Japan in 1994. He won the bronze medal in the 1994 FAZR International tournament in Iran, the silver in the 1993 SAF Games at Dhaka and the 1993 VII Asian Championship at Korat. He represented India in the 2006 SAFGames at Colombo winning the gold medal as the manager for the Indian team.